Tag: education

It seems like just yesterday that the Brody Medical School at East Carolina was bemoaning its tight finances and seeking MORE government funding. Actually, it was a mere TWO years ago. Now, we’re hearing that the med school is going to do its part to bail out the struggling ECU football program: East Carolina University has designated $20 million in university money to settle a deficit in its athletics budget and to make significant capital improvements to athletics facilities, officials said Wednesday. The funds are available immediately, with one $10 million transfer intended to nullify a deficit created in part…

The Chi-Coms orchestrated a massive purge in the early-to-mid 20th century to eradicate any all all capitalist, bourgeoisie, and / or “traditionalist” elements from Chinese culture. American leftists are trying it here with attacks on Confederate monuments and our nation’s Founding Fathers. In North Carolina, we’ve seen it in the attacks on the Silent Sam war memorial in Chapel Hill, the war memorial statue in Durham, the forced name change of the football stadium at UNC-CH, and now a broadside against the man who founded what is now known as Duke University: […] The University has stripped Julian Carr’s name…

We’ve filled you in previously on the very “special” counsel to GOP legislative leaders. From picking a fight with me, to bashing Donald Trump, to apparently blessing the works of our local social justice warriors, Brent Woodcox continues to amaze and dumbfound. Some background first on this latest episode: And here’s our favorite Amazon warrior princess — and right-thinking blogger — Raleigh’s Lady Liberty giving us the 411 on ol’ Lauryn: […] In April of this year, I warned parents with students in Wake County Public Schools about the hiring of Lauryn Mascareñaz. She had previously worked for the…

Not so long ago, we were told how terrible it was to crack down on local governments. (Something about bathrooms and cross-dressing.) Well, that apparently only applies if sane folks are hassling the liberal counter-culture. Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools has dropped a bomb on taxpayers in North Mecklenburg that even The Charlotte Observer finds offensive: […] The most reckless public officials in Charlotte were at it again Tuesday, escalating a fight that needed to be calmed, threatening families they needed on their side and, once again, keeping it all secret from a public they appear to disdain. In an act that was…

Dr. Jeff Moss has a way of stirring things up wherever he goes. Until 2013, Moss had a stormy tenure as superintendent of schools in Lee County, North Carolina. He left that position in 2013 to take the superintendent job in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Earlier this year, Moss left the Beaufort job. Meanwhile, there is a search on for a new president of Central Carolina Community College in Lee County. Several well-placed sources in Lee County tell us there is a serious campaign going on behind closed doors to bring Moss back to Sanford to fill that post. …

I was a little lukewarm about Mark Johnson when I first met him during the 2016 primary campaign. But since he’s been in office, he’s done a bang-up job of getting on the last nerve of all the right people. Here’s the latest: The fight over who is running North Carolina’s public schools remains unsettled, with both the State Board of Education and Superintendent Mark Johnson insisting they’re in charge. Both sides claimed victory in a state Supreme Court decision released in June that upheld a 2016 state law transferring some of the state board’s powers to Johnson. In a…

Keith Poston, a guy who used to run communications for the state prison system when the Democrats ran Raleigh, is now the head guy for something called The Public School Forum of North Carolina — which is little more than a mouthpiece for all of the leeches who devote their lives to sucking as much taxpayer revenue as possible out of state coffers in the name of the lil’ chil’ren. State prisons to public education. Really not much of a stretch there. Anyway, Keith is breaking new ground in liberal debate tactics by mixing the DISCRIMI-RACISM bogeyman with trannies and…

I thought it was unusual to see $200,000 tucked away in the recent budget agreement for “classroom supplies.” Those are normally appropriations handled by local governing entities — city councils, county commissioners, and school boards. The budget agreement even cited a charity called DonorsChoose to handle the allocation of the funds. It was even more curious to see that the money was only earmarked for certain schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg system. It turns out those schools happen to be all the public schools in Senator Jeff Tarte’s district. Well, it turns out that DonorsChoose wasn’t willing to play along…

Some of the same people who spent the last few days hollering about the schools being “starved” NOW want the public schools managing and renting “affordable housing ” to teachers and other school employees. (*Holy Mr. Roper, Batman!*) Some Durham area Democrats filed HB 936 on May 17th. It allows Durham County schools to provide “affordable housing” to the system’s teachers and employees. Hmmm. There is apparently money available to do this — build and manage and rent affordable housing units — but there allegedly isn’t enough to pay for classroom supplies or offer pay raises. How come? This…

Nope. Jones Street Republicans will not be joining Drew Carey on the stage. (The union thugs won’t let them.) The drivebys have swamped us with lovey-dovey coverage of the union thug-orchestrated “Red for Ed” march on Raleigh. Your little skulls full of mush got a day off while their teachers romped around downtown Raleigh poor-mouthing anything and anyone with an ‘R’ next to their name. It certainly was amazing to see all of the poor grammar and math on display during the march. It certainly can take the wind out of the sails of your demands for a pay raise…